Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cultural_revolution

1 sense of cultural revolution

Sense 1
Cultural Revolution, Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution -- (a radical reform in China initiated by Mao Zedong in 1965 and carried out largely by the Red Guard; intended to eliminate counterrevolutionary elements in the government it resulted in purges of the intellectuals and socioeconomic chaos)
       => revolution -- (a drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving; "the industrial revolution was also a cultural revolution")